One of the most complicated moments of Luis Tosar when was it separated and, just two months later, he had to face the success of The idiots’ dinner. “The success of the work drove me crazy, People were laughing and I was getting more and more nervous, more and more depressed.” he confessed in Fire Xou next to Marc Giro on Tuesday night.
The actor recounted how a panic attack overtook him just before going on stage: “I got to the show and, 30 seconds before I opened the curtain, I said to the stage manager, ‘I can’t, I can’t, I can’t, I can’t.’ I start to have another seizure and collapse there.a brutal tension, this feeling that your chest is contracting, that you can no longer breathe.
The audience reacted quickly, and two doctors from the ward arrived: “Here they coordinated and said: look, this child is having an anxiety attackyou must take him to the emergency room and they drug him. » Tosar recounted with humor how they had transferred him: “They took me to the front, on a stretcherin front of the whole audience watching me…completely broken down.”
Already in the emergency room, the actor received professional help: “They gave me a pill, I relaxed and started telling them what was happening to me.” Tosar acknowledged that This episode had a profound impact on him.but it also taught him how to manage his anxiety: “All this translated into a uniform that basically said, come with an anxiety attack, we’ll give you this or that, he is homesick“.
Between moving memories and laughter, the interpreter clarified that talking about mental health in public is not easy, but necessary. “Sometimes life throws you into unexpected situations, and The important thing is to accept help and move forward.“, concluded Luis Tosar on the RTVE set.
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